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Dougie is the bass player and backing vocalist of british pop-rock band McFly. He has co-writer credits on many of McFly's tracks, including the lead writer credit on their 2007 number one single "Transylvania". Poynter also wrote an unrecorded track called Silence Is A Scary Sound, which is featured as a live recording on their third studio album Motion In The Ocean. Poynter was 15 when he joined the band. Because of his young age, Dougie and the other members of McFly hold the record for the youngest band to ever have a debut album go straight to number one, a record previously held by The Beatles. McFly are currently recording their 6th studio album... keep reading.

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Lulu, Rick Astley, Kiki Dee and McFly… perhaps not the sort of artists you’d expect to find at the Llangollen International Festival.

But organisers hope the eclectic mix of performers will help attract more than 40,000 people to the annual week-long event which begins today.

While 4,000 performers from 50 different countries and a range of musical genres will be competing at Llangollen this year, the event is now trying to entice new audiences, with contemporary chart-toppers McFly due to headline the festival’s closing concert.

Mervyn Cousins, chief executive for the event, said: “This year we have taken an evolutionary rather than revolutionary approach.

“We still have 4,000 competitors coming from all over the world providing a great variety, as has always been the case.

“And the week will build to our showpiece event, the choir of the world competition on Saturday which has grown and grown over the years.

“We’ve tried to do two things this year, that is, to keep our core audience – and we have the same competitions as we had last year. But secondly we are trying to open up and diversifying our audience throughout the week.

“We were looking for a young contemporary act to do that and, from the four or five artists we approached, McFly were the first to get back to us, and we were delighted with that.

“It’s not the easiest of times, but give us some good weather and I think we’ll be talking about a very successful week again this year.”

Lulu will perform at the opening gala concert today with her special guests including Rick Astley and Kiki Dee.